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Regional allocations
As the recently appointed Chairman of the ICANN APRALO i have the opportunity to lead an organisation during a time of much public consultation and change. One of the exciting consultations is the geographic regions policy. It seems to me that for years we have debated about having the AP region and its value. Two…
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.cym TLD for the Welsh
Earlier this week i read this article from Computer Weekly regarding the proposal to create a TLD .cym for the Welsh people. To summarise, the Welsh government have voted to support the creation of a new TLD .cym to identify the Welsh population and to create further financial pathways and a safer Internet for its…
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Getting Creative with Domain Names
The United Arab Emirates went live with their new Top Level Domain-TLD (Internet Name suffix such as .nz) .ae on August 03 2008. This refreshed my memory of the many opportunities Māori have to be creative when obtaining a web site address. We do not have to stick within the .nz space, not do we…
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IDN’s in .nz
The second round of consultation regarding implementing IDN’s in .nz closed on July 17 with only one submission from the Sate Services Commission . The one submission which is in support of IDN’s is a sign of the multi cultural society that we live in. People recognise that the Internet is not only a European…
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Google says 1 trillion url’s
Google recently announced that they indexed 1 trillion urls. In 1998 when Google first indexed the web there were 26 million url’s. For any individual or group who claims the Internet is not a viable communications vehicle need to re evaluate as does any indigenous/minority culture who see the Internet as threat to their culture.…
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Cybersquatting in the .maori.nz
Since 2001 when .maori.nz was introduced there have been at least 34 cases of cyber squatting that i am personally aware of. The biggest culprit bulk registered a number of tribal names the second .maori.nz was introduced, then put them up for sale often at 100 times the original price. We the Maori Internet Society…
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Alternative Domain Name System
During the Paris meeting ICANN agreed to open up the creation of new TLD’s. I now find myself contemplating what if ICANN did not agree to this ?. I personally know of a many non speaking groups who were creating an Alternative Domain Name System that would cater to their linguistic and cultural needs. Sure,…
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Fundamentall change to Internet
At the ICANN meeting in Paris, ICANN agreed to the most fundamentally largest change on the Internet since its inception over 40 years ago. ICANN in 2009 will accept the creation of new gTLD’s. The decision has created a lot of debate and speculation that large corporations will simply use their money and power to…
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.xxx to be or not to be, that is the question posed by ICM
For those of you who followed the process of .xxx being accepted by ICANN then the turn around decision by ICANN not to implement .xxx will find the independent review requested by ICM as an interesting point in Internet governance. Maybe we will find out whether the US government really did interfere with the decision…
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non English domain names
Mr Dmitry “Vladimir Putin” Medvedev the recently appointed Prime Minister of Russia is promoting the idea of Cyrillic domain names to be implemented on the Internet. Although Cyrillic is currently part of the IDN roll out by ICANN, it does brings international attention to the fact that the Internet is a predominantly English based system…
